Gramscian analysis holds expert knowledge inevitably serves prevailing power

Evidence

Mattei’s discussion of Gramsci and his circle is one of the highlights of the book. From a Gramscian perspective, technocrats and experts enforce a top-down conception of knowledge that, Mattei contends, inevitably serves the interests of the prevailing power structure. — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 125

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the Gramscian conception of technocratic knowledge as top-down and serving power.
• XREF: connects to: Advanced societies conflate knowledge with decision-competence and truth with power — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 634; Modern power and knowledge are conceptually inseparable and copresent; Expert knowledge reflexively creates the very universe of events it calculates. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 203 (+8 more)

Related

• Power requires officially validated knowledge, not merely ignorance (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Modern power and knowledge are conceptually inseparable and copresent #corroborates (0.90)
• Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another #corroborates (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75
• Advanced societies conflate knowledge with decision-competence and truth with power #corroborates (0.85) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 634
• Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power #corroborates (0.85)
• Disciplinary power selects, normalizes, hierarchizes, and centralizes knowledges. #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 197
• Some knowledge forms are intrinsically resistant to being wielded as power #contradicts (0.80)
• Expert knowledge reflexively creates the very universe of events it calculates. #expands (0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 203
• The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism #corroborates (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284
• Organic intellectual work resists inscribing itself into metanarratives of achieved knowledge #qualifies (0.75)
• The everyday examination is an overlooked origin of modern power-knowledge #corroborates (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284
• Collective intelligence exceeds any individual’s without erasing individual expertise #contradicts (0.72) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 552